WORLE, England, July 13 (UPI) -- The honeymoon began Wednesday for a 31-year-old deaf organist who married his first girlfriend, a 70-year-old retired engineer and grandmother in England. Simon Martin and Edna Townsend were married Saturday after a 30-month relationship, and set out for Cornwall Wednesday for a 2-week honeymoon. Martin, who has been profoundly deaf since the age of 9, is an accomplished organ player and also restores the instruments. He told the Daily Mail he had been a lifelong bachelor. "I've never had a relationship before. Before my life was all about music," he said. | Guess he got tired of playing his own organ. (rimshot) |
Townsend, a grandmother of three, had already had a long relationship with a younger man and lived with the man, who was 10 years her junior, until he died at the age of 52. "I had heard quite a lot about this extraordinary young man and it really was love at first sight," she said. |